Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 08:46:46 -0400 From: Bill White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The question has to do with running applications. The program less, and several other programs seem to put themselves into the background, as if I had typed an ampersand at the end of the line. When I put them into the foreground again, they with a segmentation fault. Is this a known problem, or have I done the installation incorrectly? When I try to use telnet, the telnet daemon gets to the point where it can log an attempt to connect from the right IP number, and then it hangs. I suspect this is the same problem somehow, but I don't know exactly what it is. This is more or less standard behaviour. The Hurd cannot dump cores yet. Instead, when a critical signal arrives, a program suspends itself such that you can attach a debugger to the program to find out what went wrong. If you then continue the program, it will handle the signal, which in your case results in a message telling you that the program suffered from a segmentation fault. So the real problem is why those programs are segfaulting? I suspect that the shrared libncurses on your system is a bit out of date. You could try upgrading to the latest version. Mark
